As producer, part of Dodson's job was recruiting the perfect sound editing team for the film, which is now available on DVD. It was a critical task, as the movie features little dialogue from Redford, so the sounds of the storm, the wind, the waves and the boat act as characters in themselves. Most of those sounds would be added and created in post production.

"They found us," Dodson recalled, talking to PennLive while on the set for his newest film, "A Most Violent Year."

"We were not sure exactly how we were going to handle the sound in this movie - the sound design and the sound mixing. It's a complicated movie for this because it's all sound," he went on. "The movie needed people who were really good at their job and really brave and really bold about it."

What the film needed, was Emmy Award winner Steve Boeddeker and Academy Award winner Richard Hymns of Skywalker Sound.

Dodson still remembers the phone call from Academy Award winner Gary Rydstrom, who would consult on the film, and Hymns . "They said, 'Listen, Mr. Redford told us about your movie and we want to do it.'" Dodson said.

Dodson didn't believe them at first, knowing of the group's reputation. He had to make sure they were, in fact, who they said they were. Once he did, he had to level with them.

"I said 'Listen, there's no way we can afford you. We're a $9 million movie and, frankly, we've spent all of it.'" Dodson remembers. "'I don't know how the hell we could possibly afford you.'"

"They said, 'We want to do this movie. This is every sound editor's dream,'" Dodson recalled. Rydstrom and Hymns then asked Dodson how much money the project had to give. "They were like, 'Okay, we'll take that.'"

"They decided that it wasn't about the money, it was about the project," Dodson said, adding later "they knew they would do a great job on it and it was a project worth pursuing."

The efforts of Boeddeker and Hymns have earned them an Oscar nomination for sound editing, the only Academy Award nod for the film. The sound editing award recognizes the creation and manipulation of sound for a film. Its close cousin sound mixing is related to balancing score, dialogue and other sound effects in the film.